Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 2

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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
obtain. I am persuaded that it was originally a dance tune, and that neither in England nor Scotland have we yet arrived at the fountain head. Bremner makes a whole tone between the seventh and octave at the terminations of each part; but the copy sung by Lauder has the semitone, and agrees so far with the Caledonian Pocket Companion, and with the English version.
PETTICOAT LOOSE.
A favorite old country dance. It is included in Peter Thompson's Collection (1753), in that of Charles and Samuel Thompson (1765), and of Samuel, Ann, and Peter Thompson (1790). Also in Rutherford's and several others.